Cover of the Week #90

A richly imagined debut novel about a traveling salesman and the small town he changes forever

If someone offered you a magic elixir that could conjure any dream you wanted . . . would you take it?

Travelling salesmen like Robert Owens have passed through Evie Dawson's town before, but none of them offered anything like what he has to sell: dreams, made to order, with satisfaction guaranteed.

Soon after he arrives, the community is shocked by the disappearance of Evie's young son. The townspeople, shaken by the Dawson family's tragedy and captivated by Robert's subversive magic, begin to experiment with his dreams. And Evie, devastated by grief, turns to Robert for comfort only he can sell her. But the dream peddler's wares awaken in his customers their most carefully buried desires, and despite all his good intentions, some of them will lead to disaster.

Gorgeously told through the eyes of Evie, Robert, and a broadcast of fully realized characters, The Dream Peddler is an imaginative, moving novel of overcoming loss and reckoning with the longings we keep secret.

Tentokrát jsem brouzdáním po Goodreads narazila na tuto prazvláštní knihu. Obálka mě zaujala hned na první pohled a zajímalo mě, o čem kniha přesně je (i když jsem dle názvu pár představ měla).  Nejsem si jistá, jestli je tento příběh z pera Martine Fourniera Watsona mým šálkem kávy, avšak ráda bych mu dala šanci.